Healthcare providers should adopt an individualized approach to teach heart failure self-care skills, recognizing it as a learning process for patients to maintain independence.
Healthcare providers must appreciate that patients view self-care as an "adaptation" that they undertake to maintain their independence and quality of life. In addition, HCPs must recognize that because self-care is a process of learning over time from experience, an individualized approach that emphasizes how to self-care must be adopted for patients to develop the necessary HF self-care skills.
Harkness et al. (Wed,) studied this question.